A long gap since my last update; as alluded to, life has been complex. But progress has occasionally continued on the Thunderhawk project, and we are now getting excitingly close to completion. At the end of my previous update , I had the insides painted and the wings glued on. Draw the rest of the owl What can I say? Then I glued everything else on. Well, I guess I can say a bit more than that. I started by gluing everything on underneath, if I had started on the top I’d have broken bits when I turned it over. The feet went on as predicted, having previously drilled and set the pins, and as predicted getting the diagonal supporting in afterwards was fiddly but doable with tweezers. They seem solidly sturdy. For the most part I just glued things on with glue as they weren’t structural and had decent contact areas, but I pinned the hinge pieces on the strike wings as I predicted friction might otherwise force those apart, and I ...